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Patented May 80, 1882.

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Unrrnn Sar-ns FRANK RHIND, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

ORNAMENTATION OF GLASSWARE.

SPECIFICATION formng'part of Letters Patent No. 258,808, dated May 30, 1882.

Application filed January 30, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANK RHIND, of Brooklyn, in the county' of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and uselul Improvementsin Ornamentation ofGlassWare; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the artto which it pertains to make and use it.. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the ornamentation of glassware; and it consists in securing to the inner vside of the article that is to be decorated a suitable picture-or ornament of pearl, thcn coating the inner side of the article with a gum, and then covering the gum with smalts, brocadc, or mica-dust of any suitable color or mixture of colors, as Will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to ornament glass so as to give it the appearance ofpolished granite of any colorer a brilliant color of any hue that may be preferred.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure is a side elevation of a lamp decorated by my process. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the ornamented part. l

l take a glass article of any desired shape orsize, and to its inner side attach a picture orornamentofpearl of any kind. The surface (No model.)

The smalts used may consist of colored sand, A

broken-up glass, or other solid matter in small pieces, and either a single kind of any one article may be used or a number of them may be mixed together. The smalts, showing through the glass and gum, give the glass the appearance of polished marble.

This method ofornainenting glass is particularly adapted to glass cylinders of all kinds, Whether used for ornamentng lamps or for any other purpose.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a glass cy linder for lamp-pedestals, having its inner surface coated with gum and a covering of any suitable colored grannlarsnbstance applied to the gum'while wet, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK `RHIND.

Witnesses WM. APGAR, FRANK W. LEWIS. 

